About Me
- Fran Richardson
- Welcome to my blog!I'm a teacher in a beautiful, small, rural town. I moved here a few years ago, but I have taught over 20 years in this same small town that is now my home. My experience is in teaching second, third, and fourth grades with one year in sixth grade. I am always reading, learning, and reflecting on what goes on in my classroom. I love the work that I do with the parents, my fellow teachers, and most all-my students.I hope you will enjoy reading my blog.
The Scholar, Age 5
I'm A Lifelong Learner...
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I Still Love Learnin'!
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My Blog List
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How to Teach Kids to Code: Strategies for Every Stage of Learning - From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we’re exploring one of the most exciting and relevant topics in ...6 hours ago
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Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Color By Number Remediation Numbers 1 to 5 Worksheets Resource - Getting your students to practice their math skills can be challenging, but you will love the no prep, print and go ease of these Old Woman Who Lived in a ...
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Poetry Sisters Write to Jane Hirshfield's Two Versions - I missed our Zoom this week, so I went into this challenge blind. Mary Lee set this back in January when she was enamored of a new-ish poem by Jane Hirsh...
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Modeling Multiplication and Division as Equal Groups Hands on Activity - Would you like to help your students practice the multiplication and division skills of equal groups and repeated addition or repeated subtraction in a...
3 months ago -
Character Affirmation Posters: Purposeful Reading Decor for Your Upper Elementary Classroom - As I've said in previous posts, I love decorating a classroom, but those decorations need to have a purpose. I leave a lot of empty space on my bulletin...
1 year ago -
ATTENTION TO ALL WHO SUBSCRIBE BY EMAIL!! - image via Unsplash You will no longer be receiving email notifications for this blog because Blogger email subscriptions were handled by FeedBurner, whic...
3 years ago -
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Using Tech In English Classes - Ways to use Tech Effectively in English Classes is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined in the conversation by Jenny Vo, Jennifer ...5 years ago
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Getting Started with Interactive Math Notebooks - I have been using interactive math notebooks in my classroom for as long as I can remember. Math notebooks are a great place for students to take notes, re...
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A Look Back: ADHD Diagnosis, Bullet Journal, Cube Timers, Brain Dump, Growth Mindset, Katie's Teacher Tea, & Encouraging Words - At the beginning of 2018 I had the goal of trying to a monthly post, but I had such a difficult time trying to keep up with posting on the last day of t...
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Four years after... - Hard to believe I walked away from this for four years. I love words. I love to write. It's cathartic for me. Somehow, I let four years slip by. There ...7 years ago
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The Mini Greg - It has been a long time but finally, a new lesson plan template. A colorful and organized approach to guided reading groups. Originally created for Mr. Greg...
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Ten-Frame FUN - Helllooooo! Yes, I am still alive. Yes, I am BUSY, BUSY, BUSY. But yes, I am still here! I think about this little old blog often but lately it has had to ...
8 years ago -
Celebrate The Last Day of School and Happy Teacher Appreciation Week - Happy end of the year to you, phenomenal teacher! Hats off to you and the hard work behind all you do. Finish out the school year strong - and treat yourse...
8 years ago -
I've moved! - Click the image below to be redirected to my new blog! Friends, I've rebranded. Thank you so much for following along over the years. I made a new blog...
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I'VE MOVED!!!! - Hi my lovely, loyal readers!! Please note that Mrs. Mimi has up and MOVED to a shiny new blog with fabulous new content. Don't worry, I took all the old s...8 years ago
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How to Get Started With Genius Hour for Elementary Classrooms? - I believe that every single child is gifted and that every kid has a talent which we as educators should help uncover. This is not easy when you have a c...
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Making Poetry FUN - Poetry can be so much FUN! My kids and I enjoy reading poetry, and we recently dove into a poetry unit, which included learning more about figurative lan...
9 years ago -
New School Year! - Dusting off the shelves of this blog for another school year. I'd like to use this more as a personal journal for my schoolteacher life this year so what b...10 years ago
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Looking Back - I’ve just spent nearly all of an afternoon looking back on all the INK blogs that I’ve written, trying to get a sense of what I’ve been doing, thinking, an...
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Exciting News! - We are excited to share with you our newest adventures! We are both opening up our own individual Teachers Pay Teachers stores, as well as our own indivi...11 years ago
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Auntie Claus Preview and our Polar Express Day! - I wanted to give a sneak peek at our Auntie Claus unit that my friends, Michele and Elana (Lana) and I are finishing up for teacherspayteachers. We are ...
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It's a Lifestyle - I have noticed that everything I do is not a career or an event or even an activity/ chore.... it's a LIFESTYLE. The problem is making sure my lifestyle c...12 years ago
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Calling all teachers!!!! - Alright, this is kind of a poll... I'm about to *finally *open my TpT store, but I'd like to know from y'all what kinds of things you'd like to see first a...12 years ago
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Tennessee's Teacher Evaluation - What a mess! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/education/tennessees-rules-on-teacher-evaluations-bring-frustration.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&smid=fb-share13 years ago
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Five Friday Freebies - Week 22 - f you are not a TN member, membership is FREE. Here is a link to register so you will be able to download. *Teacher Notebook Registration *Click on log in...
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Connecting Children With Nature: Learning About Trees - Our playground is surrounded by an abundance of beautiful trees, which always seem to captivate my very curious kindergartners. Who would have guessed that...13 years ago
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First WAS Fab...Second will be Super! - Thanks to all followers of this BLOG. I will be moving to second grade and will no longer post to this BLOG. I will, however, leave it active for viewing a...13 years ago
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Summer Book Club (for students!) - Our recent post on Teaching Blog Addict has me thinking.... I know I can't wait to read over the summer, but what about my students? How can I help preven...13 years ago
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New Year - New Plans - It's been a whirlwind end to 2010. My school was in the middle of a Quality Review when I received a call to take a position at another school. It was such...13 years ago
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Friday, July 1, 2011
FAB FRIDAY- More Fun Stuff from THE DOLLAR TREE and SUCH..
Some of my latest finds at the Dollar Tree:
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More about the puzzle and how I use them to build teams below.
Here are some other purchases from another Dollar Tree location. More treasures!
From Amazon's used books, I found several copies of Book 1 of The 39 Clues ( Maze of Bones) for $0.01 so I only paid shipping. These were hardbacks in very good condition. One is stamped Goodwill so that is another possibility for good books if you have a store nearby. I will be using the 39 Clues Book 1 as a team-building unit this year when school starts. So now I have several copies, and Amazon offered it as a free download so now I have a FREE copy on my Kindle.:)
More about the puzzle and how I use them to build teams below.
Here are some other purchases from another Dollar Tree location. More treasures!
Now to the puzzles:
I bought several of the $1.00 puzzles while we did our camping unit for The Week in The Woods. The puzzles were a "just in case we had a rainy day or a too hot to go outside day" activity. ( It got up to the high 90's here in SC before we got out the first week of June). The most popular puzzles were the 50 states and among the boys- tractors, cranes, and bulldozers. I let the camping cabins ( cooperative groups) work during morning work on a puzzle together, BUT I challenged them to not talk ( tee-hee). I was amazed at how quiet they were as they worked to solve the puzzles. We did this puzzle-solving/ teamwork activity the last few weeks of school, and the kids never tired of it. I have now decided that the idea of 1) quiet, 2) working together, and 3) solving a problem are all skills that will be something we now do with puzzles in the FIRST weeks of school this year.
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